Steve
Let it Schnee
If you live near Seattle you don’t need my photos, just look out your window. This short post is to show those living in non-snowy places what Mary Anne and I woke up to today. Also to give me something to do while staying in our nice warm house.
Our Just Deserts
Desert – Dessert get it? During a recent trip to Portland, our friends Wayne and Jane mentioned that they were planning to sell their condo in Scottsdale, Arizona. This made me sad because they have been kind enough to let us use it many times. Driving back to Seattle, I said
Farewell Old Friend
Just a brief post to note the departure of our Porsche Boxster S. I always thought it was weird to express love for any kind of a thing, but after eighteen years of ownership and any number of memorable road trips, I was very fond of this car. But time
Paper Cuts
We traveled into town today for a premier viewing of The Geography of Innocense, the cut-paper art of Barbara Earl Thomas. Although some of the works look like they are illuminated from behind, this is only true in the full-room exhibit. All the rest are layers of hand cut and
Nordic Selfies
A sunny Sunday morning in Seattle – likely one of the last for a while. We decided to pay a return visit to the Nordic Heritage Museum to see an exhibit of photographs taken early in the 20th Century by Edvard Munch. Munch was a multi-talented artist: woodcarving, printmaking, and painting.
Done at Last
Between early March and last week, we’ve had workers inside or outside the house almost every day except for the period when all construction was suspended due to COVID-19. Our first project was to remodel both of our downstairs bathrooms. I can’t show the results because the iPhone
QAnon
Millennialism—the conviction that a savior will arrive to punish evil and refashion the world into a paradise for the faithful. Powerlessness begets rage; rage seeks a scapegoat; and, when facts prove too inconvenient or the situation too complicated to parse, fantasy bridges the gap between what is real and